MASTER AND CREW.
A REMARKABLE DEADLOCK. WESTPORT, January 1. A unique condition of affairs, producing an extraordinary deadlock, has arisen between the caotain and crew of the Norwegian barque Odd, now lying at Westport. The difficulties obtaining are chiefly due to the fact that the Odd, being a foreign vessel, is not subject to New Zealand shipping law. Upon the arrival of the barque from Matipu the crew presented to the Vice-Consul for Norway a written complaint covering matters of food supply, etc., and demanding that they tie paid off at this port. This Captain Torgensen declined to agree to, and denied that, there were any grounds for food complaints. The mates and the seamen then refused to work, but declined to leave the ship. The result has been that shore labour has had to be employed j in discharging ballast. As things stand j at present, the crew refuse to work or j leave the ship, and the captain refuses to discharge them. It would seem that the lack of jurisdiction over a foreign flag prevents the rights and wrongs of the dispute being investigated in the Magistrate's Court, and to have the case dealt with in Norway would be a protracted and expensive matter* ..._- '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 3
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